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A Card from the Fellows Reading Room Draw signed by Wilder Gutterson, RSA Development Director.
During the building of the ambitious Adelphi Scheme (which included the RSA's John Adam Street House) the Adam Brothers were faced with bankruptcy. To complete the building work they ran a lottery which offered private houses as prizes. They need to raise approximately £200,000 - the equivalent of about £14m today - and tickets were sold for £50 each - the equivalent of about £3500 today!
The brothers were successful in raising the required amount, and must therefore have sold about 4,000 tickets. Without the Adelphi Lottery the RSA House would not have been completed.
The cover of this card preproduces a 1774 lottery ticket from the RSA Archives.
Royal Society of ArtsAwarded the sum of twenty guineas by the Society for his set of working drawings in 1824
Roxburgh was elected an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Society in 1797 and awarded the Society's Gold Medal in 1805 for his communications on East India products
Landseer awarded the lesser silver palette for this drawing, done when he was 10 years old
Tim Clark was a pupil of the Government School of Design. Illustration from M Digby Wyatt, 'The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. A series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation at the Great Exhibition, 1851' held in the Society's early library
Limited edition of 200 copies
Amber Hiscott worked with Noel Architects on the conversion of the Old Library in Cardiff into a major centre for the visual arts. The £6.2m scheme includes a number of facilities including two galleries for twentieth century art and a children's discovery centre. Artist and architect worked together to identify opportunities for the involvement of other artists and craftspeople during the later stages of the project. The project was completed in 1997. Client: Cardiff Old Library Trust. Award value £6,500.
Background to the RSA's history
Won The British Musuem Attachment Award worth £1460 under the the 'Museuem Shop for Children' brief in the 'Interior Design' sector. Worked with the British Museum.
Designed by Ronald Grierson, manufactured by the Redfern Publishing Co. Ltd
The Fountain Carpet' in patent knot stitch fabric, 12 x 9ft, designed by Maxwell Armfield for Tomkinsons Ltd, Kidderminster
Partridge feather carpet, 12 x 9ft, designed by Raymond B Simpson and manufactured by Tomkinsons Ltd, Kidderminster